OTHERS ON BLAIR AND HER FAMILY
[Quotes in bold are new.]

About Blair & Starr

"Blair's someone who'll say [to her baby, Starr], 'I'll give you everything so you won't have to suffer the way I did,' and she'll then probably turn the child into another version of herself." -- Susan Bedsow Horgan (then-executive producer of OLTL), SOD 1/30/96

(on why Starr doesn't tell Blair she's pregnant) "Starr doesn't know whether to tell her mom, because she doesn't know if she could fully trust her not to tell Todd." -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SID 4/21/08

(on Starr's revelation that she is pregnant) "Really, the only person she can turn to is Blair, which has never really been the case. Starr has always kind of favored Todd over Blair and now, the true colors of her parents are really coming out and being shown to her." -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SOD 7/15/08

(on why Starr chooses to live with Blair, not "Todd"/Victor) "She has been so close with her mom, and she wants to be with her mom every second, because that's exactly what Blair did for her. She was there for her, and Todd was never there for her." -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SOW 4/7/09

"Starr is not getting through to Todd. Blair asks Todd to listen to reason. Blair explains to him that, 'As much as we don't want to let her go, we're going to have to, or else we'll lose her.'" -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SOW 1/19/10

(on Starr's reaction to Blair marrying Eli) "I guess Starr's like, 'Well, he makes Blair happy!' and she doesn't really pay too much attention to it. There are so many other things going on in her life that she doesn't need to worry about her mom's life right now -- even though she should be worrying!" -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SOW 8/17/10




About Blair & Dorian

"I love all the relationships that Dorian has with her Cramer women. Her interaction with Kelly is distinctly different from the way acts with Blair and is totally different from the way she acts with Cassie." -- Robin Strasser (Dorian), AOL Chat Transcript 7/16/98

(about Blair's role in the Grey Gardens spoof) "She goes into a sort of nightmarish daydream that she and Dorian are so trapped in the past that they become like [the squalor-stricken Beales]. ... They turned Dorian's living room into this filthy place, filled with cats and dirt...and I'm wearing humongous padded breasts that lie on my stomach! It really, really worked." -- Robin Strasser (Dorian), SID 8/10/09

"Dorian and Blair have such a great relationship and are so close, and yet are at odds, because Dorian believes that Todd is wrong for Blair. As much as she loves Blair, she's kind of like, 'I know what's best for the Cramer women, and I've got to get involved here and make sure Blair doesn't do something that she is going to regret.'" -- Ron Carlivati (headwriter of OLTL), SOW 9/29/09




About Blair & Kelly

(on Kelly) "OK, she may not be religious in a true sense, but she is very spiritual. She is closer to 'good girl' Jessica, who has made some poor choices, than she is to 'bad girl' Blair." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), Austin American-Statesman 10/10/99

"We get to see Kelly come back as a woman. And [we see] how Blair responds to that, how Dorian responds to that, and her other extended family and her cousins. It's going to develop right in front of us, and I think you're going to see women who are strong and hold their ground but, at the same time, have vulnerability." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOW 2/2/10

(on Kelly) "She has to re-establish her relationship with Blair. It's going to be an interesting thing to balance because she's family." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SID 2/22/10

(on Kelly and Todd) "Her understanding of him is really through Blair and his relationship with Blair and what he did to Blair and what Blair did to him, and all that interesting stuff." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 3/16/10

(on Kelly VS Blair) "They really know how to push each other's buttons. I think she's moved past that. Kelly has a lot more maturity now. She's not a high school kid and she's not the type of woman that sits around and goes, 'Nanny, nanny boo-boo.'" -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 3/16/10

(on why Kelly decides to stay in Llanview) "She can see that Dorian needs her, she can see that the animosity between her and Blair should probably be given some attention, and she wants her family to be near her. She wants to make a difference, not only in business, but within her family." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 3/30/10

(on why Blair doesn't want Kelly working with "Todd"/Victor) "I think Blair's got this ownership about Todd, like no matter what, 'He was my husband. Stay away!' And Kelly's like, 'Really?' We'll see what happens." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 4/27/10

(on Kelly VS Blair) "I would really like to get to the bottom of what the rivalry's based on and try to figure out how to let that go. That could take forever." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 4/27/10

(on Kelly causing the car accident that killed Blair's son, Brendan) "We do touch on that. And yeah, that was big. But Blair has slept with Kevin. It's that whole thing where a woman wants exactly what another woman has." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 4/27/10

(on whether or not Kelly and Blair hate each other) "No. They tend to rub each other the wrong way, but underneath all that they do love each other. They love each other as family. And it's that common thing that happens with your blood: You love 'em, but you hate 'em." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 5/4/10

(on why Kelly takes a job at The Sun) "Kelly works for Todd to piss off Blair." -- Erika Slezak (Viki), Official Fanclub Newsletter, November 2010